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Developing the whole child? Tensions between sport and study in Australian independent schools

Wellham, Dirk and Hickey Christopher 2009, Developing the whole child? Tensions between sport and study in Australian independent schools, ACHPER Australia healthy lifestyles journal, vol. 56, no. 3/4, pp. 17-22.

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Title Developing the whole child? Tensions between sport and study in Australian independent schools
Author(s) Wellham, Dirk
Hickey Christopher
Journal name ACHPER Australia healthy lifestyles journal
Volume number 56
Issue number 3/4
Start page 17
End page 22
Publisher Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation Inc.
Place of publication Hindmarsh, S. Aust.
Publication date 2009
ISSN 1445-8918
Summary This paper reports on a research project that set out to examin the relationship between students' involvement in school co-curricular activities and their academic performance.  The warrant for the study emerges out of consistent claims made about the provision of co-curricular, naming sporting, activities and the development of a more rounded and successful student.  The primary question being asked here was: 'Are student's academic performances, as measured by their results for tertiary entrance in their final year of school, improved or reduced by their participation in co-curricular activities?'  The study used a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods to interrogate this relationship.
Language eng
Field of Research 130106 Secondary Education
Socio Economic Objective 950102 Organised Sports
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2009, ACHPER
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30022968

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: School of Education
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